C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

[Chris M.]

On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 16:15:52 UTC, bpr wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 14:07:43 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>> [...]
>
> No. For many C++ users, tracing GC is absolutely not an option. 
> And, if it were, D's GC is not a shining example of a good GC. 
> It's not even precise, and I would bet that it never will be. 
> If I'm able to tolerate a GC, there are languages with much 
> better GCs than the D one, like Go and Java.
>
> [...]

There was a precise GC in the works at one point, no clue what 
happened to it.